Dear friends i have linux 7.1 and windows environment when i srtat smb server in linux from linux box i can connect to smb server but from windows machine i cannot also if i try to see which port are open on linux box it shows me only ftp but not of
tcp/139 but inside linux if i try command netstat -a it show me port 139 listening for tcp connction can anyone guide me to access port 139 from windows

regards

chandrakant

First check if you have any firewall rules in place with #ipchains -L
You can clear all rules if you have to with #ipchains -F
Although this is not a good way to do this!

Then try on the windows box in network neighborhood to see if the Linux box can be seen as a shared resource.
Another helpful tool is webmin. This will give you a gui to set up the samba server on Linux. It is best to learn how to do this manually though.

I've managed to get this working a few times, (once on a customer site, and they paid!), its always a headache to start with. Usually you will run into authentication problems which is the point where most people get stuck. This never seemed to work the same way twice. I think this depended on the version of windoze you were using. Version 1 or 2 of Win98 or if using NT.